Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live for ourselves alone.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Only the man who says no is free
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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